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RAWITSCH (Polish Ravicz)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAWITSCH (
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Polish Ravicz)  , a
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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Posen, lying near the Silesian frontier, 37 M . N. of
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Breslau, at the junction of
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railways to Posen and
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Liegnitz . Pop . (1905) 11,403 . It contains a handsome
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Protestant
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church and a
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medieval town
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hall . The
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principal
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industry is the manufacture of
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snuff and cigars, and for the former it enjoys a considerable reputation .
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Trade is carried on in
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grain,
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wool,
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cattle, hides, and
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timber .
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Rawitsch was founded by Protestant refugees from
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Silesia during the
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Thirty Years'
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War . It passed to
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Prussia at the second
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partition of
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Poland in 1793 .

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Additional information and Comments

Why write that the Polish is Ravicz, when it is correctly Rawicz? From this town's name come various family names in various spellings: Ravich, Ravitch, Rawich, Rawitch, Rawitsch, Ravitz, Rawitz, Ravicz, and of course the original Rawicz.
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